Twitter: @ua_uk_ A British lecturer's view of life in Ivano-Frankivsk and the provinces of western Ukraine. Блог британського викладача у Івано-Франківську. Focusing on everyday life during and after Euromaidan (Євромайдан) and its aftermath. I have a PhD in Slavonic Studies from a British university. I lived in Ukraine from August 2012 to June 2014. Now I am working in Giessen, Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher. I am not of Ukrainian origin.

Brief update

I’ve plenty of ideas for updates but no time to complete them, what with seminars to give, conferences to attend, job applications to submit and so on.

So the next update can be expected in early May – and there’ll be word on Bandera and his monuments in the city, academic reforms, Easter and everyday life.

In the meantime, everyday life (and the non-everyday Easter holidays) continue, while fears about the situation in the east of Ukraine grow. The only perceptible difference in Ivano-Frankivsk to normal times is that there are more soldiers in uniform on the streets than usual, as soldiers go about attending various offices around the city. And fighter jets are training in the skies above the city.